BBC reported: "
China has denied claims that it hatched a plot to kill the Dalai Lama by sending female agents to poison him.
A foreign ministry spokesman said the accusations were "groundless".
The denial came after the Dalai Lama told a newspaper that he had received unconfirmed reports of an elaborate assassination attempt on his life.
China has long accused the Dalai Lama of trying to split Tibet, with its separate culture and language, from the rest of China.
'Groundless'
Speaking at a regular press briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the Dalai Lama was spreading rumours to attract public attention.
"His sensational allegations are not even worth refuting," he said, before calling them groundless.
The spokesman added: "Wearing a religious cloak, the Dalai Lama has been engaged in international anti-China separatist activities."
The Chinese newspaper the Global Times went further, calling the allegations mind-boggling.
"The assassination plot told by the Dalai is more like something you would find in a martial arts novel. Revealing such unreliable information, the Dalai appears to have become mixed up in his old age," it wrote.
With due respect to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, if the Chinese is serious as what has been claimed there is a plot to assassinate him, they would have easily done so long ago. But again, let us reason it out on spiritual view why the Dalai Lama has not been harmed and he is still spreading word of peace and word of ancient wisdom to the whole wide world. We must have some good seeds or merits to warrant the Dalai Lama to remain with us and become a torch to earth where the light is waning. How fortunate we are and we have to rejoice on this note.